Author Archives: Matt Pulver

Fix for “sslv3 alert handshake failure (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError)”

By Matt Pulver | Published: April 26, 2008
If you are using the ruby httpclient library (v2.1.2) and getting an SSL error similar to /path/to/httpclient-2.1.2/lib/httpclient.rb:1039:in `connect': sslv3 alert handshake failure (OpenSSL::SSL::SSLError) then there are (at least) two possible solutions to this.
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Chaining :include’s in Rails to reduce the number of SQL queries

By Matt Pulver | Published: April 8, 2008
Say you have the following data model and you want to execute a single query that returns all the data at once within the ActiveRecord tables, with the proper rails associations between them. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could do something like A.find(:all, :include => :b => :c => :d => :e) #v1 ? Though this is [...]
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Introduction to Array and Hash Methods

By Matt Pulver | Published: March 23, 2008
One significant programming paradigm I first learned with perl, and have carried over to other programming languages such as ruby, is to think of arrays and hashes as fundamental data types, accompanied by their associated functions/methods. Though not as great of a leap as the transition from procedural to object-oriented programming; to be able to [...]
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